Psychology & the Mind
A compact presentation of psychoanalytic ideas about dreams, wish-fulfillment and the relation between conscious and unconscious mental life. It is most useful when read historically, as an example of Freud’s method rather than as a contemporary scientific account of sleep
Psychology & the Mind
Freud uses dreams as a route into unconscious wishes and conflicts, developing ideas about dream-work, symbolism, repression, and the role of dreams in mental life
Psychology & the Mind
Freud applies psychoanalytic ideas to anthropology, religion, taboo and social life. Some of its historical arguments have not held up to modern anthropology, but the work is important for seeing how broadly psychoanalytic explanation was once extended